US 12,093,025 B2
Conveyance system, conveyance method, and computer readable medium
Shiro Oda, Anjo (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota (JP); Takeshi Matsui, Nisshin (JP); Takayoshi Nasu, Okazaki (JP); Kei Yoshikawa, Nagoya (JP); Yusuke Ota, Nagakute (JP); Yutaro Ishida, Toyota (JP); Yuji Onuma, Nagoya (JP); and Kyosuke Arai, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/545,300.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-023168 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258349 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01)
CPC G05B 19/41895 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4401 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance system in which medical equipment is conveyed by use of a plurality of mobile robots autonomously movable inside a medical welfare facility, wherein:
in a case where an emergency call event or a disaster event occurs in at least one area inside the medical welfare facility, the conveyance system receives occurrence information transmitted from a facility management system configured to manage the medical welfare facility and causes the mobile robots to execute an operation restriction to restrict operations of the mobile robots; and
in a case where a predetermined condition for the emergency call event or the disaster event is established after the mobile robots execute the operation restriction, the conveyance system reboots the mobile robots;
wherein:
the predetermined condition comprises a predetermined period of time having passed from the emergency call event or the disaster event;
priority levels indicative of priorities to execute the operation restriction are set to the mobile robots; and
the priority levels of the mobile robots are changed in accordance with operation necessity levels indicative of necessities to operate the mobile robots so that exchange of information by use of communication between the mobile robots is performed prior to the operation restriction.